Meaghan is the genius behind the blog The Decorated Cookie and the amazing art book cookbook Sugarlicious. If you’ve never been over to The Decorated Cookie, you’re missing out. Seriously, she writes on marshmallows and puts stuff on sticks. And have you looked at her cookbook? It seriously is a sugar wonderland work of art. My copy is dog-eared with things I cannot wait to make.

I have to be honest: I’m a lurker over at Meaghan’s blog. I oogle all her goodies and have been for a very long time. So when Michelle over at Sugar Swings! asked me to be a part of Meaghan’s shower I immediately said yes!

The theme of our shower is rainbows. Which is cool, because, well, who doesn’t love a rainbow? Jordan’s birthday last year was a rainbow theme and I told my husband that, for my 20th (hardee har har) birthday, I want a rainbow theme too. {We’ll see if he remembers. #notlikely}

Meaghan and her family have gone through a lot to become parents and second-time parents. I think a rainbow shower is perfect for this happy occasion!

It being Christmas and all, I was making tons of cookies. Peanut butter blossom cookies are one of my favorites…especially with peanut butter cups. I remembered the cupcakes I made for Jordan and thought, why not dip the Reese’s? So I did. And aren’t they cute??

If you’re not into rainbows in the middle of December (and why aren’t you???) you can just make red and green, if you’d like. Christmas peanut butter cup cookies!

So, to Meaghan and her family, congratulations on your new baby girl! I’m SO happy for you. I’m seeing rainbows everywhere I go today, in honor of you!

Scoop 1 tablespoon of dough into each mini muffin cup. (Optionally, you could roll each cookie into a ball and drop it into the muffin pans. This will make them “prettier”.)

Bake for 8-9 minutes, until they just start to turn golden brown. While they are hot, place a peanut butter cup in the center of each. Cool completely (let the candy harden) before removing from pan. To remove, us a butter knife to carefully loosen the cookie from the pan. It should pop right out!

Notes

*Dipping the peanut butter cups in colored candy is optional, but pretty!
*If you don’t have colored candy melts, you can use white melts or almond bark and color it using candy coloring (NOT food coloring).
*Tip: make yellow and red first. Then mix for orange, etc.
*These freeze well, between layers of paper towels.

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Here are the others who are helping celebrate Meaghan’s shower today! Go stop by and tell them you love rainbows too.

THANK YOU!!!!!! Somehow that doesn’t even cut it though. These are so so so awesome, and how did you all know RAinbow was my thing?? The lot of you just made me bawl the happiest ever tears, and thank you doesn’t even cover how much I appreciate this. YOU ROCK!!!!